60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Visual Novel, Multiple Endings, Mystery, Choices Matter.
Grab your crayons and delve into the world of Crayontopia in this murder mystery visual novel. Become an adept or inept detective as you gather evidence, get to know your fellow crayon-lovers, and seek to uncover the colorful secrets behind the murders that plague this seemingly perfect world.
Poisoned Path
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
小学生はませている。
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Poisoned Path is a deep visual novel set in a mysterious atmosphere, where your choices determine the story's fate. Uncover dark secrets and chart your own course.
Why similar: Detective 13.6%, Hand-drawn 13%, Visual Novel 12.1%, Drama 12.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
いじめの犯人探しに抜擢された主人公。 彼が描く推理、その結末は必ずしも正しいとは限らない。 あなたが選んだ結末次第で、 誰かを苦しめるのかもしれない……
Why similar: Drama 17.1%, Detective 14.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Investigation 12.3%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%
Kamilia is a story-driven, choices-matter detective mystery. Follow a talented painter who finds himself wrapped up in an unsolved case, as he tries to unveil a hidden truth that has been buried for years.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Investigation 13.4%, Mystery 12.1%, Visual Novel 12%, Emotional 12%
Become a righteous hacker detective who solves people's problems... and hack the requested PC by solving riddles! Analyze the PC by hacking! And... solve the source of your client's problems in the PC! This game is a puzzle solving adventure. You can hack by solving riddles.
Why similar: Detective 22.9%, Drama 15.4%, Mystery 14.1%, Emotional 13.8%, Visual Novel 12.5%
A suspense visual novel replete with life-or-death situations, puzzles and six different endings. Make your own decisions, solve riddles and reach the truth about the disappearance of the world's leading geneticist - and your best friend.
Why similar: Detective 17%, Investigation 15.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Visual Novel 10.3%, Choices Matter 9.1%
In this detective horror visual novel, investigate a seabound anomaly. Explore areas of interest, uncover clues, and piece together evidence before time runs out — and before this mission becomes your last. Choose a side; don't look back.
Why similar: Detective 20.8%, Investigation 17%, Mystery 11.3%, Visual Novel 9.6%, Multiple Endings 7.5%
Hello, Jake. Welcome to the game.
Why similar: Drama 19%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%, Dark 10.7%, Emotional 9.6%
Play as a detective tasked with catching a serial killer in this visual novel set in post-war Japan. Investigate key locations, question many complex characters, piece together clues, and try to stop the culprit before they end yet another young girl's smile.
Why similar: Detective 17.4%, Investigation 15.1%, Emotional 10.7%, Visual Novel 10.5%, Mystery 9.8%
A visual novel depicting a protagonist who desperately struggles to change their fate of despair.
Why similar: Emotional 14.9%, Drama 14.8%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Mystery 13.1%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
Something has been taken. Enter a new Grid and forge alliances via visual novel gameplay, uncovering truths through Identity Disc puzzles. Make critical decisions and plot your own course in a world without a creator.
Why similar: Detective 21.6%, Visual Novel 13.3%, Mystery 11.5%, Choices Matter 9.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.9%
Ranko and her friend Astrid must investigate the vanishing of a girl from their school. Learn about the secrets of St. Joachim to find her, but be cautious! A bad step may lead you towards an ugly end...
Why similar: Detective 20.2%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Investigation 12.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.4%, Mystery 9.9%
Black Lilies - Eternal Summer is a yuri English Visual Novel made by one lone dev. Alice and her friends must try to find they way out of an endless time loop, or lose their minds trying. Drama, mystery, murder, and suffering awaits them... As does romance, if they can survive.
Why similar: Drama 20.9%, Investigation 17.5%, Visual Novel 16%, Dark 11.6%, Emotional 11.1%
A detective who accidentally unsealed the monsters must find the man-eating monster before the deadline. Humans are afraid of monsters, but they were also made by themselves.
Why similar: Drama 23.8%, Detective 22.6%, Visual Novel 14.4%, Mystery 12.4%, Multiple Endings 10.3%
A crime-solving mystery game from the perspective of the culprit. You know everything they don't, and the only way to make it back home is to Guilt Trip.
Why similar: Detective 24.3%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Mystery 13%, Hand-drawn 9.2%
Determine the fate of Ventreville! Play as six protagonists with unique abilities and stories, their arcs tied to each other by the sudden murder of the Avidines. Make your choices count! The final protagonist, the interrogating detective, will only know as much as your previous characters know…
Why similar: Detective 14.9%, Investigation 10.8%, Visual Novel 10.4%, Emotional 9.7%, Multiple Endings 9.7%
The "Chip" was humanity’s evolution; Now, it’s a silent weapon. Navigate a web of conspiracy in Vesper City as Detective Richard Apocryphal, alongside your Android partner E.M.R.S, as your investigation outcomes ripple through a fractured society. Can you solve the case before it’s too late?
Why similar: Detective 22%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Investigation 13.1%, Mystery 11.9%, Choices Matter 9.1%
At what point does a simple desire become an obsession? This is one of the dilemmas faced by Beatrice, a photography student as bitter as reality itself. Within a tangle of unfolding mysteries, she will discover that the most beautiful manifestation of the past holds a chaotic future.
Why similar: Drama 19.3%, Visual Novel 18.5%, Hand-drawn 16.2%, Multiple Endings 12.8%, Mystery 12.5%
An idol livestreamer is searching for her missing partner. You are not just watching her stream. Interfere with her broadcast, investigate clues on and off stream, and uncover the truth behind her partner’s disappearance.
Why similar: Investigation 18.7%, Detective 17.7%, Mystery 14.3%, Visual Novel 14%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.8%
Rumor Reporter is a Golden Age whodunit mystery. Play as senior reporter Veronica Chase as you explore Greyhaven Island in the Celtic Sea, 1920s. Choose where to investigate, who to question, and what to publish. Your report shapes public opinion, drives arrests, and changes the island’s future.
Why similar: Detective 23.1%, Investigation 19.4%, Mystery 14%, Multiple Endings 9.5%, Visual Novel 9.4%
For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.
Why similar: Detective 19.7%, Investigation 18.8%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Mystery 11.6%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
A visual novel in the romance and adventure genre. Awaken in the Honeycombs, a camp where memory is erased and secrets hum in the night. Forge bonds, defy the Union, and uncover your past. Will you be a pawn or ignite freedom as war looms?
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Visual Novel 15.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 14.1%, Emotional 13.4%, Lore-Rich 9.3%
In pursuit of coin, hired dagger Arthur finds himself embroiled in conspiracy involving the daughter of a noble House. Who is really pulling the strings behind the scenes?
Why similar: Visual Novel 15.3%, Mystery 14.2%, Hand-drawn 12.1%, Multiple Endings 11.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.2%
Shape Delvin’s fate by navigating fragile relationships, uncover hidden motives, and peel back the layers of a world that grows stranger the deeper you go. Meet unforgettable characters, make impossible choices, and discover just how far you’re willing to go to protect yourself or your loved ones.
Why similar: Visual Novel 17.7%, Investigation 16.3%, Emotional 13.5%, Dark 10.3%, Lore-Rich 9.1%
A mansion drenched in heavy rain. Heirs gathered, each eyeing the family fortune. And you—who committed a murder in their midst. As a chain of killings begins, YORAM follows Irene Lindbergh, a murderer hiding her crime, as she searches for the truth buried deep within the estate.
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Drama 16.9%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Investigation 14.3%, Hand-drawn 13.6%
The year is 840. Use your detective skills to weed out and banish the succubi terrorizing the citizens of Damaros and uncover the truth behind the recent spike in succubus victims, or become a corrupt tyrant who abuses his power, or even side with the succubi to terrorize the city.
Why similar: Detective 20.5%, Investigation 15.9%, Mystery 14.5%, Choices Matter 13.3%, Multiple Endings 12.3%
A detective noir, choose-your-own-adventure game with hand-drawn art, over 250k words, and an immersive soundtrack.
Why similar: Detective 13.4%, Investigation 12.9%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.3%, Hand-drawn 9.5%
The Sleeping Sickness is an interactive short story that allows the player to guide the main character's actions. The player’s choices will lock and unlock future locations, change dialogue, and alter the story. Choices matter in The Sleeping Sickness. It is an excellent choice for horror fans.
Why similar: Investigation 14.2%, Detective 13.6%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.4%, Mystery 9.7%, Multiple Endings 8.3%
Become an investigator in a dark fantasy story. People keep going missing in Maligree, before being forgotten by all who knew them. Will you solve the case before you forget?
Why similar: Detective 21.1%, Visual Novel 13.5%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.7%, Choices Matter 10.6%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
本游戏以视觉小说的形式，收录了十四个奇幻恐怖的短篇故事。从网站专栏的投稿、社团的恐怖故事分享会、到某座设施中的秘密实验……你将以不同的视角，探索发生在鸶门市周边的种种奇妙传闻。
Why similar: Detective 24.1%, Drama 18.5%, Visual Novel 16.2%, Mystery 14.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.6%
A puzzle-detective game set in 1990s China: play as a forensic artist, interview witnesses, drag and drop testimony and documents, sketch suspects from clues, and piece together evidence to solve mysterious crimes.
Why similar: Detective 24.9%, Investigation 20.9%, Mystery 13.5%, Visual Novel 10.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.4%
When did you become a monster? In this nightmare, everyone is guilty. Everyone has a secret. A demon will make you remember what you did. Piece together your shattered past in a detective psychological horror and... WAKE UP!
Why similar: Detective 29.5%, Drama 23.2%, Investigation 16.8%, Mystery 14.7%, Dark 12.3%
Crimes across the times. Are you able to solve them all?
Why similar: Detective 18.7%, Drama 16.1%, Visual Novel 12.2%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.6%, Investigation 9.1%
On Air! Taxi Detective Casebook is a pixel-art, dialogue-driven mystery game. You’re an AI in a taxi, teaming up with a talkative driver on late-night runs to hear bizarre passenger stories, solve cases in secret, and let him play the “great detective.”
Why similar: Detective 26.5%, Investigation 21.3%, Visual Novel 14.6%, Multiple Endings 8.9%, Choices Matter 8.5%
A closed-off ghost town, and the unsolved bizarre serial murders that once occurred there. A “daily life collapse” suspense × death game novel ADV that depicts the obsessive love and revenge of 11 people whose lives were irrevocably shattered by that horrific incident.
Why similar: Detective 21.2%, Investigation 13.7%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Multiple Endings 10.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%
Take control of Morgan's destiny as his world is turned upside down. Explore the world of Dreams, where mythological creatures and Nightmares are real. A story-heavy adventure game with multiple endings, romance options and a symphonic music! Inspired by Neil Gaiman and Inception.
Why similar: Visual Novel 14.1%, Emotional 14%, Mystery 13.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%, Hand-drawn 11.4%
You awaken in an unfamiliar location with unfamiliar people and are surrounded by mystery. Will you be able to solve the puzzle and uncover why you are here in this sci-fi/mystery/puzzle visual novel? The future hangs in the balance.
Why similar: Detective 16.5%, Visual Novel 12.5%, Mystery 11.7%, Emotional 11.2%, Multiple Endings 10.9%
A world where humans and beastmen coexist. A secluded hotel exclusively for beastmen deep in the mountains. An incident occurs on a night when everyone has gone to sleep... Whether you can safely return from the hotel depends on your choices.
Why similar: Investigation 18.3%, Visual Novel 13.7%, Mystery 13.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.3%, Multiple Endings 11.5%
This is a murder mystery visual novel where you take the role of the detective. Search for clues, make discoveries, and talk to other characters to find out what is truly going on on the Murder Express.
Why similar: Detective 34.3%, Visual Novel 16.5%, Mystery 15.1%, Drama 10.2%, Hand-drawn 9.1%
Yakuza Cats is a graphic adventure set in a 100% feline Tokyo. This original world mixes Ukiyo-e art with Gen Z aesthetics. It is a coming of age story that puts the player through different ethical choices while tackling themes such as identity and prejudice.
Why similar: Drama 19.6%, Visual Novel 19%, Investigation 16.6%, Hand-drawn 15.8%, Mystery 9.5%
A cozy nonogram puzzle adventure wrapped in a storybook world. Solve gentle picture-logic puzzles to reveal hand-crafted pixel art, and slowly bring color back to a village that has quietly faded away.
Why similar: Drama 15.5%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Emotional 13.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.3%, Mystery 11.5%
A dark story about a short but tragic journey. Classic point&click adventure with a rich storyline and multiple endings.
Why similar: Detective 15.3%, Drama 14.3%, Mystery 13.8%, Emotional 11.9%, Multiple Endings 9.4%
You play as pharaoh Horem during the 18th dynasty of Egypt. You have to balance your work and home life as the living embodiment of a god, how hard could it be? What is right and wrong? Can there be an allowance for a lapse in judgment? Can you forge a path to getting to sleep peacefully each night?
Why similar: Investigation 22.3%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Hand-drawn 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 9.7%, Drama 9.3%
Elena and 7 familiar faces are trapped in a room, and the only way out is to choose one person to die. Navigate social relationships and gain trust to steer the spotlight away from you, or else they just might decide you should be the one on the chopping block.
Why similar: Mystery 16.8%, Visual Novel 16%, Choices Matter 15.6%, Detective 14.3%, Multiple Endings 13.3%
莺神乐的知名作品，在Steam中高清化上架！ 与书本坠入爱河，畅游在书本与魔法的世界中吧！
Why similar: Detective 17.7%, Emotional 13.1%, Visual Novel 12.6%, Mystery 10.9%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.9%
「透明人間」のクロと、「透明人間しか見えない・聞こえない」豹馬。平穏を望む２人に、世界は恐るべき牙を剥ける。何度でも。ただ、豹馬の望みが絶たれるまで。
Why similar: Drama 20.1%, Visual Novel 19.3%, Emotional 19.3%, Mystery 14.7%, Choose Your Own Adventure 12.9%
After being away at college, you meet up with two of your friends at a local movie theatre. What starts out as a simple reunion, quickly unravels to be a gruesome murder mystery with your friend as the victim. It is now your mission to find out who did it, and how in this visual novel style game.
Why similar: Detective 19.3%, Investigation 19.2%, Visual Novel 11.8%, Mystery 11.8%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.7%
The Apple Tree is an interactive story in the genre of a visual novel. Investigate a series of murders together with police Captain Christian Tyler and try not to fall into the trap of criminals!
Why similar: Detective 23.4%, Investigation 16.1%, Visual Novel 13.1%, Dark 9.7%, Mystery 8.8%
Shunichi Sasaki, a young man who lost his past memories due to higher brain dysfunction, was criticized as a "murderer". Who was he really? Use memory notes to supplement his memories and explore his past.
Why similar: Drama 20.5%, Detective 14.8%, Mystery 13.3%, Visual Novel 12.7%, Dark 9.9%
KILLA is a 3D adventure mystery with multiple endings. Valhalla, our protagonist, seeks the killer of her mentor, a mentor she treasures like family, venturing to an unknown island. Discover the culprit on this enigmatic island and embark on a journey of revenge.
Why similar: Detective 17.2%, Investigation 17%, Visual Novel 11.5%, Mystery 11%, Choose Your Own Adventure 8.9%
*This game is only available in Japanese, Traditional Chinese, and Simplified Chinese. 「メモリーズオフ」シリーズ1作目 1999年に登場した恋愛アドベンチャーゲーム「メモリーズオフ」をフルＨＤ移植。
Why similar: Drama 23.7%, Visual Novel 17.2%, Emotional 14.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 13.9%, Multiple Endings 9.6%
Seventy-eight years after the Great Collapse, the city of Belmarc stands as a beacon of civilization amid the ruins. A city where magic and technology intertwine, where humans and machines coexist. And in its depths, one Courier begins to chase the forgotten sins of the past.
Why similar: Detective 24.6%, Investigation 17.4%, Visual Novel 15.3%, Lore-Rich 12.9%, Mystery 9.8%
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Why similar: Detective 18.9%, Investigation 17.5%, Visual Novel 11.7%, Mystery 11.1%, Choose Your Own Adventure 10.8%
I Am The Prosecutor is a non-linear Visual Novel about defending a cute Tomboy named Sophie where you're given just 30 seconds to make the right choice each time. Help make Sophie's case against her abusive mother and give her much needed closure.
Why similar: Detective 27.7%, Visual Novel 17%, Multiple Endings 13.6%, Choices Matter 11.8%, Story Rich 9.2%
Solve a series of tough cases, full of personal drama! In the new game series, you have to unravel some of the hardest mysteries using both logic and your intuition!
Why similar: Detective 18.1%, Drama 16.8%, Visual Novel 13.9%, Investigation 12.4%, Choose Your Own Adventure 11.9%
Detective agency management × superpowered mystery. Former operative Lin Mo rebuilds the Ash Detective Agency in Collins City. Investigate crime scenes, use “Echoes” to recover memory fragments, rebut lies with evidence, dispatch partners for intel, and uncover conspiracy behind your mentor’s death.
Why similar: Detective 29%, Investigation 22.2%, Visual Novel 15.1%, Mystery 12%, Story Rich 7.7%
You can’t understand them—yet. Decode the “Second Reality” through Talk, Mind Read, and Translate in an empathy-driven psychological mystery adventure.
Why similar: Investigation 14.7%, Detective 14.4%, Visual Novel 13.6%, Mystery 12.6%, Emotional 12%
A deceptively cozy narrative game about an alchemist that immigrates to a new country and opens an apothecary. Get to know your weird and wonderful community, brew the potions your customers need, and use your words to stir up a country on the brink of change.
Why similar: Investigation 24%, Detective 21.9%, Choices Matter 11.1%, Emotional 10.7%, Multiple Endings 10.6%
WHODUNNIT is a mystery visual novel following a man who must answer a burning question: who the hell did he hook up with last night?
Why similar: Detective 31.6%, Investigation 22.6%, Visual Novel 16.4%, Mystery 13.1%, Story Rich 8.6%
和纳西妲一起，回到「过去」的须弥。真正的花神诞祭、密室中发生的「不可能犯罪」、预示着世界将毁灭的地震……在「神」不在的须弥城，你能否揭开命案的真相，探寻提瓦特世界的终极秘密，然后…与「那个人」再次相见？ 和伙伴们一起，去见证《只属于「她与花」的往日》
Why similar: Detective 27%, Visual Novel 17.1%, Drama 17%, Mystery 15%, Lore-Rich 10.2%
Step into the world of Nyx, a VTuber whose online persona begins to blur with something far more unsettling. After the Stream Went Dark is a short psychological horror visual novel exploring identity, self-perception, and the fragile boundary between performance and reality.
Why similar: Drama 20.7%, Visual Novel 18%, Hand-drawn 13.7%, Emotional 13.6%, Mystery 10.3%
